Come on Mike, your plan has been slated for "within the next few months " for around 8 months now. Why dont you produce this plan now and see how it matches iemmas plan? Seems like we can look forward to waiting for a real plan for many a while to come. If your plan revolves around buses, cannot see why it then takes so long to release. Spit will never be trully fixed if its reliant on the current road we have now. 
 
Regards,

Thanks Sean come and meet so we can discuss! Like all good things it will be worth the wait. 
Cheers 
Mike

I totally agree with you, Mike. Better public transport is the only real solution to the Spit Bridge traffic woes.  
 
If it is cheaper and easier to take the bus, people will leave their cars at home.

$48 million resembles a bad band aid joke. And whilst I'm surprised that the current government would spend even a penny on those of us up north, the only real solution is a tunnel to divert the traffic away from Spit Junction and Mosman. 
We need something more like $80 million. Yes Mr Dillema, add a nought to it!

wait till the next election free years. 
Morrie Iemma will be gone. 
We need protest. every few years from Labour. 
Not good enough.

Where is our freedom? We can't do anything anymore without getting taxed. They say our taxes pay for roads and wages for government - do they? Where do the actual dollars go. Nobody really takes time to research this. The fact is the corporations write policy. The fact is that road tolls are just a tax in sheeps clothing. We're not free to work and keep our earnings, and yet the money we pay to tax - we're not free to decide how and why that is used and what it is used on. That is decided by corporate sponsors behind the scenes. Check it out: All the Australian Prime Ministers have been involved with two influential globalist groups - either the Bilderberg Group, or the Council on Foreign relations. These groups fund massively private agendas on governments around the world - including our own. The public needs to educate itself and stop being distracted by localised apparently isolated issues such as this bridge. If they can get a toll road into and out of northern beaches then it's just another way that big brother can track and tax you, and inch away our freedoms until we're just numbers with a microchip embedded in us. Google RFID and see what you find on that topic, it's public, it's massively funded and it's on the cards for every man woman and child. All we need is another 9/11 and you watch them say it will protect us from terrorism. Big Brother is here. Orwells 1984 is creeping over us like a silent foreboding shadow and nobody is noticing, and political correctness - new speak - is just another nonsense removal of freedom plugged by these people. If you research the heads of these organisations their prominent members, the roots of it are quite astoundingly fascist, and openly so. So what I am saying is that we should have a simple good road into and out of the northern beaches paid for by petrol excise which is what that is for, and if the government can't do that without taxing us by tolling and privatising it, then we should be investigating them for mismanagement. Because what the heck are they doing with all the money if they can't build the roads that our taxes are supposed to go and pay? Where is the old Australia? Was it such a bad thing!? We were able to park on a beach without paying a tax for it and camp in a camping park without paying beach front property rental, land tax etc. What about land tax? It's an unconstitutional evil tax imposed centuries ago by the british nobels, it's not a rich persons tax, it's a tax that is against land owners and that is unconstitutional that the government do anything that corrupts the value or security of a persons ownership of land to live and work on. Check out the Australian constitution. Why don't our lawyers and politicians defend us from the corporations who buy our rights instead of handing us over like so much fresh meat on a silver platter. Who do they serve. I like Mike Baird but I can't help but feel he is just playing the game as it has already been laid out for him, instead of questioning the rules, questioning authority. If he *can't* question authority because authority is handed down, then what kind of a society are we living in? This bridge fiasco is just another long list of items - we need to start to wake up to the bigger picture. Public transport is great but what happens when you can't take a bus without microchipped public ID, or pre paid identified ticketing systems, and you can't drive without an etag that shows where you go and when. Freedom of movement is being limited - that is freedom without surveillance. I work in a place where ID cards have to be presented. I joked one time with a customer that had a microchipped passport. I said "Big brother eh". He looked at me sternly in defence of it, being without humor and said "You only have something to be afraid of if you have done something wrong" to which I could only say "But who decides what is right and wrong". It has to be the community who decides, not the corporations and pseudo dictators at the top of the money chain, which is the real chain of power these days. Democracy is dead if we don't educate ourselves as individuals about the extent of the erosion of our freedoms and mismanagement of public money and vote with that self education by not choosing any one who supports the status quo but instead supports what is best for the community, and not short term solutions that sell out the real value of the community and our infrastructure in the long term.

Definitely too little, too late. Also too slow. There is absolutely no reason why even any of the trivial things mentioned in this pathetic package needs to take more than 6 months to implement. Making Spit and Military Roads parking free should be no more than a matter of adding the signage. 
 
In 5 years' time, the traffic will likely be slower than today, so all this could possibly do is reduce the rate at which the traffic gets worse. Hardly measurable! 
 
What is also appalling is how this government is quite prepared to fritter away a million dollars here, a million dollars there on consultants and drawn-out feasibility studies, without any actual progress. (If spent on either of the Northern Beaches hospitals, it would actually provide a measurable service to the public.) 
 
However, spending money on monitors is not going to encourage people out of their cars and into public transport when peak hour buses are full and non-peak hour buses don't actually exist to any useful extent. 
 
I'm sounding like a broken record here, but we need a mass-transit system along the Pittwater Road corridor to North Sydney and/or St Leonards/Chatswood. 
We need to get more buses on the roads *throughout the day*. Those buses need bus bays at every stop, with enforcement of the existing right-of-way rules when they re-enter the transit lane (something that appears to have caused the diversion of funds to replacement buses instead). There needs to be nimble mini-buses that feed in to the main transport corridor from the back streets. There needs to be commuter parking adjoining major transport hubs. 
 
People from Mona Vale need a feasible alternative to driving home after drinking alcohol - at least they must have no excuse!